Luxury Overnight Sleeper Train in the UK - The Caledonian Sleeper

Watch this video to see what it’s like to take one of only two luxury overnight sleeper trains in the United Kingdom, the Caledonian Sleeper!

The Caledonian Sleeper may just be the best way to travel from London to Scotland. In this video, you’ll see the most deluxe room – a Caledonian Double Bed – on this luxury overnight sleeper train. I took advantage of everything it had to offer during my stay onboard.

We left London at 9:15 at night to travel around 500 miles northward for just over 10 hours, following the East Coast of Scotland before pulling into Aberdeen at about 7:30 in the morning.

From the tastes of Scotland’s world-famous cuisine to the incredible Scottish Scenery, the solid night’s sleep was the icing on the cake of this luxury sleeper train experience. And all that meant I arrived in Aberdeen ready for the day ahead. Another trip onboard the Caledonian Sleeper is certainly in my future!

0:00 Introduction
1:08 London Euston Station
2:50 Boarding the Caledonian Sleeper Train
4:49 Caledonian Double Room Tour
6:04 Morning on the Caledonian Sleeper

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Music:
Morning Traffic – Raymond Grouse
Just a Drive Away – Raymond Grouse
Room to Breathe – River Run Dry
Backseat Therapy – River Run Dry
Complicated – Sleeping Vines
No Leaf Unturned – Jon Bjork

[joeshmooo]

Really enjoy your narration. Your voice and use of inflection is perfect. Easy Listening

[SiVlog]

Hi Jeb, I thought I'd provide at least some explanation of why London has so many dead end, ie terminal stations. When railways reached the London area, legislation forbade them from extending through the city from one side to the other (this is why it's in 2022, the first full loading guage railway to go from East to West and vice versa across the Capital opened, with Crossrail, aka Elizabeth Line). The station that's closest to the actual City of London, is Charing Cross station, which serves Kent, Sussex and South Eastern suburbs of Greater London

[phoebus]

Just for clarification, neeps is Swedish turnip, commonly known as swede, rather than white turnip, commonly known as just turnip.

[JackJackProductions]

London has so many stations because they were each built by different competing companies
Waterloo - LSWR - London and South Western Railway
Charing Cross - LCDR - London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
Cannon St - SER - South Eastern Railway
Fenchurch St - LTSR - London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway
Liverpool St - GER - Great Eastern Railway
Moorgate - GNCR - Great Northern and City Railway
Kings Cross - GNER - Great North Eastern Railway
St Pancras - MR - Midland Railway
Euston - LMS - London Midland and Scottish railway
Marylebone - GCR - Great Central Railway
Paddington - GWR - Great Western Railway
Victoria - LBSCR - London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway

[neilbowers]

I've travelled on the Caledonian Sleeper a few times up to Aberdeen. That coastal section between Edinburgh and Aberdeen is some of the best countryside in this country. Especially between Dundee and Stonehaven and not forgetting St Andrews as well.

It has had a troublesome past, especially when the new train came onboard. But, it's good to see that they've put that behind them now and you had a good trip.

But, i hear that the Edinburgh to Inverness section is breath taking.

[chrisst]

I heard about the old train a few years ago and checked out the prices. The headline price was £60 or so and when I checked I found it really was possible to book a cabin a few weeks in advance for around that price with more immediate cabins going up to £120. That's not a bad deal given that it's a car and a hotel room and you arrive in Scotland ready to explore. OK so you would have to hire a car to do that and those prices are only one way.
Then they got their new trains. Now the headline price is about £300 and even if I scroll to the point just before the sun becomes a super nova the thing's fully booked and the real price is off the scale. It'd be cheaper to build your own train.
Then there's the term luxury. It's not meant to be a luxury trsin. It's meant to offer public transport and the decor didn't look remotely luxury to me. Utiliarian I would say, like a budget hotel.
Whatever I wouldn't go on the thing now as I'd always think I was being ripped off.

[AdamAuxier]

Chicago has multiple stations even today (Millenium-ICRR) (Ogilvie (C&NW), (LaSalle (Rock Island) Union Station (PRR/Milwaukee/CB&Q). Grand Central (B&O) was torn down and Dearborn (Santa Fe, Grand Trunk) still stands, but no tracks connect it.

[Token_Nerd]

It's worth noting that many US cities actually had multiple major rail stations: Boston (North and South Station), New York City (Atlantic Terminal, Penn Station, Grand Central Station, all the former Newark terminus stations), Philadelphia (Market Terminal, 30th Street station), Chicago (Union Station, Dearborn Station, Lasalle Station, Wells Street Station). For a lot of cities, most of these stations were demolished or converted to other uses as the passenger rail service was nationalized, creating more consistent networks. It's a real shame because so many of these buildings are insanely significant and we're only now starting to appreciate what once was.

[eleanorheptinstall]

I hope you liked Aberdeen Jeb. It is a lovely route up the East Coast of Scotland. It is a good thing you came on a nice day, in the summer the granite buildings shimmer. However, in mid-winter Aberdeen can be cold, windy and wet. I like to refer to the city as Abergloom.

[SteveSmithRailways]

You've done the Caledonian Sleeper. Next, do the Riviera Sleeper from London Paddington to Penzance aboard the lovely MKIII coaches.

[zork]

The "reconstruction" of Euston was one of the great crimes on British architecture. The Great Hall and the magnificent doric arch entryway were unsurpassed. To be replaced by the brutalist monstrosity that is the "new" Euston was a travesty. Sir John Betjeman lost the battle for Euston, but the work there allowed the saving of London St. Pancras a few years later, and that is to be cherished.

[magnuslindgren]

That breakfast looks more or less exactly like the ones I had during my latest stay in England a couple of years ago. Nice even though black pudding is not on my list of favorites. But it was ok.

[lou-anneh]

We travelled from London to Edinburgh via high speed train, 4.5 hrs from city to city. Booked early (6 months in advance) and got a great deal on business class. Plenty of gin and tonics, hot meal, high speed internet.
Nothing tops coming out of the train station in Edinburgh and seeing the castle.

[orientalmoons]

Really glad you did an overnight train trip while you were in the UK, and that you enjoyed it so much.
I'm booked to travel on the Caledonian sleeper in a couple of weeks' time, just crossing my fingers that I can work around upcoming strikes.
Euston is unfortunately one of the ugliest London stations though I think it was beautiful before the awful 'modernising' wreckers came up with their dreadful plans post WW2.

[richardmccarthy]

Great choice of getting an early breakfast in the club car and watching the scenery go by. If you go to Glasgow and Edinburgh the train leaves later so (as I did) you can go to a West End show beforehand. Ps I’d recommend Fort William or Inverness for scenery…..plus always go northbound (breakfast through London suburbs is not the same as highlands) plus winter might be good for snow but daylight hours mean you see much less

[TonyMontanaXx]

Jeb I loved the video but I do wish you would make some more long form videos, those are my favorite

[ColoringKaria]

the thing about american rail travel is that americans would rather go without than see others go with. in america people protest against rail travel thats safer and often cheaper than driving because they dont want "those sorts" being able to cheaply and easily get too close to where they live. (i took a business class amtrak train for $49 ($19 on coach return) from NYC to Philly, with tolls and gas it cost at least as much as business class ticket to drive. thats why our best rails are all about the same age and mainly located within the northeast corridor. in some parts of the nation only high speed rail would make sense but some people have politicized train travel as some attack on the car, but as the auto train shows it doesnt need to be that way. long story short we cant have nice things cause we dont want nice things.

[LorneMacDougall]

Welcome to Scotland Jeb, one of my fav travel bloggers and vloggers!

[michaelpetroshus]

Chicago has Union, Lasalle Street Station, Millennium Park station and Ogilvie stations.

[mrbpdx]

Congratulations, Jeb on another wonderful video and your first European rail trip. The Caledonian Sleeper is on my bucket list and you showed the train at its best! I am even intrigued by the menu and want to try everything. British rail was my first experience with high speed intercity rail and it was great!